When Mary Jane Cooley was born on 26 October 1864, in Utica, Macomb, Michigan, United States, her father, Henry H Cooley, was 40 and her mother, Aurora Elzinia Soper, was 35. She married Samuel Beach Cooley on 27 June 1893, in Bad Axe, Huron, Michigan, United States. She lived in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Elkland Township, Tuscola, Michigan, United States in 1910. She died on 6 April 1949, in Romeo, Township of Bruce, Macomb, Michigan, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Mccafferty Cemetery, Romeo, Township of Bruce, Macomb, Michigan, United States.
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Irish (Galway and Clare): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chúille ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Mochúille’, a rare Clare name, or a shortened form of McCooley, a variant of McCauley .
English: perhaps a variant of Colley or Culley .
Americanized form of German Kuhle or Kühle, variants of Kuhl .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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